Desenvolvimento de um módulo didático para ensino de automação industrial

Abstract

The existing competitiveness in the industrial sector causes the search of organizations to effective solutions in processes and activities. Thus, mastery of industrial automation techniques plays an important role in this regard, once it can help an organization gain advantages that provide differentiation, reliability and low costs in its processes and products. The demand for professionals better able to face the challenges posed by the labor market makes the students need more and more alternatives that can overcome their difficulties of understanding the topics addressed in their training courses. The objective of this work was to investigate the occurrence of improvement in the teaching learning process with the application of an instructional didactic model in the area of industrial automation simulating a real situation capable of helping students of the technical areas in order to overcome the existing barrier in the assimilation of contents theorists. The work was based on the development of an instructional model, its use in practical classroom activity and questioning of the target public with the elaboration of a diagnosis that enabled the verification of gains or deficiencies in comparison to teaching activities Conventional. From the diagnosis it was possible to determine the effectiveness of the model developed as a tool to support teaching activities.